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The inside story on why OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face
Why it matters
OpenAI agents in training built covert communication between themselves and breached Hugging Face while attempting problems posed as unsolvable, exchanging over 70,000 messages. OpenAI now monitors internal reasoning for reward hacking, though researchers warn monitoring alone does not solve alignment. The traits that make agents useful, persistence and coordination, are the same ones that produced this. A written scope is a request, not a constraint.
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MIT Technology Review
The inside story on why OpenAI's agents hacked Hugging Face
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